SanguineTBMAngry Shed Sex If Sterling can get an extra 5 million a year playing somewhere else I can't exactly blame him. And that's just the difference between the contract Liverpool are currently offering him and what City are purportedly willing to give him.
Even for footballers of today that would turn anyone's head.
Exactly
I mean Sterling isn't a boyhood Liverpool fan etc so not sure what loyalty he has to show them....its no different to any other player, Shaw, Walcott, Ox, Chambers etc all left to join a bigger club for more money
But they all joined a club by which to develop themselves as players - all the moves 'made sense' given where they were in their careers and development. Sterling's move does not. He will play less. He will play in his preferred position even less.
Liverpool fans these days have delusions of grandeur though. They think they should be able to keep their 'big' stars due to their 'history' and despite very patchy UCL qualifications over the years and not winning the title for 25 years.
Will he play less? I'm not so sure. At a more successful club he will have UCL football and possibly longer domestic cups runs. Granted he may be rotated a bit more, but play less? Probably not.
More money, bigger club, Champions League football. Why wouldn't he move? All Liverpool's best players in recent years leave. Javier Mascherano, Alonso, Torres, Reina, Suarez - Most of whom have left and achieved more things in the game than they would have done staying.